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The Foilies 2023
These days, it seems everyone is finding classified documents in places they shouldn’t be: homes, offices, storage lockers, garages, guitar cases, between the cracks...
City to spend $4 million cleaning up teahouse property
The City of Boulder is planning to shell out $4 million to clean up the environmental contamination left by the gas plant that operated for decades on the property that is now home to the Dushanbe Teahouse and 13th Street Plaza...
GMO sugar beets get the green light
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ruled once and for all...
LESSONS FROM THE HOTLINE
Back then, Glen didn’t sleep much. Rumor was he had apnea or some other sleep disorder, but it seemed to me that the middle of the night was just when most farmers chose to kill themselves, so 2 a.m. tended to be rush hour around Glen’s place in Oklahoma City...
Marco’s dream
Nine-year-old Marco Ortiz Castro’s Christmas list isn’t that long: new shin guards, cleats and maybe a few soccer balls. And he hopes to join...
Preaching to the choir
Scrolling through the staff page on 350.org, a global grassroots organization dedicated to preventing climate change, it can be hard to spot founder Bill...
A community’s response
The COVID-19 pandemic hit Native Americans especially hard. But as the spotlight turned to larger communities, including the Navajo Nation, the White Mountain Apache...
DHS terminates protective status for Haitians. Who’s next?
On Nov. 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 50,000 Haitian immigrants, effective July 2019....
Funeral services in Boulder County are being delayed, and with them,...
In George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders spins a fantastical tale of purgatory and mingling souls not yet settled in eternal homes. It’s...
What do you do with all that leftover Halloween candy?
Like many people, you may find yourself in early November...
Solar cries foul over new Xcel proposal
This Thursday, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will open its doors for a public hearing on Xcel Energy’s proposed changes to its rate...
The right to have rights
For the last eight years, Kristi Griffith has worked at the Colorado Department of Human Services (DHS) helping provide grants to organizations that work...
